Author: Family 1st Organic Gardens LLC
Transplant Shock Change: Instead of activating the soil day before and applying our transplant compost tea day of transplant, we activated soil over almost a week. A good change but not when you use compost tea instead of purified water to activate the soil. Plus, we transplanted before was done #cooking. As a result, our #plants went from looking super healthy to literally dying within 3 days. First time ever had that happen. After #rootcauseanalysis , we decided to use our #fixit tea on day seven (day would feed again). #medicaltea to the rescue. Within days, all the plants started…
Too Much Negative Air Pressure Caused Grow Tent to Collapse Time-lapse: 5 hrs It is important to maintain negative air pressure inside your grow tent/space. Negative pressure means that more air is leaving your grow room than the air released from the room. With negative pressure, you can easily control temperatures, humidity, and carbon dioxide level in your grow tent/space without much interference from air coming from outside. Problem: The walls of the tent pulled in so much that the pole supports bent and the tent semi-collapsed within 5 hours causing miraculously only minor damage to 2 plants. Reduction in…